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Italian sausage is a hot or sweet spiced sausage made of minced pork. It can be used in pasta recipes or eaten by itself. Making Italian sausage requires a meat grinder and stuffing attachment. Follow these directions to make homemade Italian sausage.

Make sure you cook your sausages well before eating, since they are not pre-cooked like many store-bought varieties. Boil them for 10 minutes or grill until the internal temperature is 150 degrees Fahrenheit (65.5 degrees Celsius).

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The best place to purchase the skins would be either the butcher at your supermarket, or a butcher market - they specialize in all things meat and would likely either have the skins to purchase, or point you in the right direction to find them.

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To make Italian sausage, start by grinding up pork shoulder using a meat grinder or a grinding attachment on a stand mixer. Then, season the ground meat with spices like cayenne pepper, parsley, paprika, black pepper, and ground fennel seeds, and refrigerate it for 1 hour. Finally, stuff the meat into sausage casing using a sausage-stuffing attachment, and twist off the casing every few inches to make the individual sausages. To learn how to store homemade Italian sausage, scroll down!